- From: Addison Phillips <addison@yahoo-inc.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:57:16 -0800
- To: Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@emi.ac.ma>
- CC: Mark Davis <mark.davis@icu-project.org>, Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>, www-international@w3.org
>> >> Or from a W3C perspective: "markup language". > Isn't "markup language" a kind of "programming language" as opposed to > "natural language"? > If one insists that there are only two kinds of language, sure. But I'm not sure that such a distinction is necessarily binary. CharMod in particular defines "markup language" as a term, meaning, basically, the gunk in your file that *isn't* natural/human language. In other words, data formats. Addison -- Addison Phillips Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc. Internationalization is an architecture. It is not a feature.
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